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From Ernest Cole, Awol Erizku, Deana Lawson, and more, here are essential Aperture titles to read this Black History Month.

Pete Kember needs no introduction. Having founded Spacemen 3 with Jason Pierce in 1982, the band went onto achieve widespread critical acclaim before tensions between the two eventually led to their demise by the turn of the decade.

'Reset in Dub' marks another attempt by Panda Bear and Sonic Boom to arrive at a new alchemy between past and present musical traditions.

Long before Portland-based multidisciplinary-artist Intisar Abioto took on guest curation of Black Artists of Oregon—a massive exhibit at the Portland Art Museum (PAM) that opens this fall—she was just looking to connect with older Black artists in her community. “I wasn’t initially approaching this as a curator at all,” Abioto told the Mercury. “I was approaching it as an artist in the Black arts community. And then it was almost like I shape-shifted roles into...

ISBN: 9781597114486 Contributors Photographs by Hank Willis Thomas. Text by Julia Dolan, Sara Krajewski, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, and Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. Interviewer Kellie Jones. By Bobby Martin. Hank Willis Thomas (born in Plainfield, New Jersey, 1976) received his BFA from New York University, and an MFA in photography and an MA in visual criticism from California College of the Arts. His first monograph, Pitch Blackness, was published by Aperture in 2008. His collaborative projects include the book and traveling exhibition Question Bridge: Black Males, the installation In Search of th...